Apparatus for filling and heading barrels



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A. O. CAREY.

APPARATUS FOR FILLING AND HEADING BARRELS.

No. 312,968. Patented Feb. 24, 1885.

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APPARATUS FOR FILLING AND READING BARRELS.

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AUGUSTUS C. CAREY, OF BOLTON, ltlASSACIlUSETTS.

APPARATUS FOR FlLLlNG AND HEADING BARRiELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,968, dated February 2%, 1885.

Alpplication filed January 17, 1855. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS O. CAREY, acitizen of. the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Mas sachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Apparatus for Filling and Heading Barrels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus for readily packing substances or matter of various sorts in barrels or other receptacles, and then heading such receptacles so as-to confine the material therein.

The special object I have in view is the putting up of ensilage for the market in portable packages, as set forth in my United States Letters Patent No. 307,266, granted October 28, 1884; and the appalratus forming the subject-matter hereof is herein shown and described with special reference to putting up ensilage in the barrel constituting the subjectmatter of my invention in application for United States Letters Patent No. 151,530, filed December 30, 1884; but I wish it distinctly understood that I do not thereby limit the application of the invention either to putting up ensilage or to packing matter in barrels of the construction referred to.

My invention herein,consists in a swinging stand for containing a barrel to be filled, and a barrel to be headed when filled, combined with a filling-chute and a drop-press and a heading-plunger and means to operate them, substantially as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my apparatus, (a portion of the framing being broken away,) and shown as occupying an upper and lower story or floor of a building. 2 isa vertical section taken in a plane in front of the droppress, and then centrally of the chute and heading-plunger. .Fig.,3isa pcrspcctiveview in detail of the heading piunger; and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of part of the chute.

The parts a, and 0 may represent the floors of tWo stories of a building, and on the former is arranged a platform or stand, 0, supported on a track, d, and a pivot, e, to permit it to swing around or rotate, it being held in given position by a pivoted stop, f. On opposite ends of this stand are arranged blocks 9 g, which in this instance are of the shape and size of the bottom heads'of the barrels, and of a height equal to the chine of the barrel, so that when the barrels are placed thereon the edges of the stavcs will about touch the stand,

but the barrel will, in fact, be supported by its head coming in contact with the blocks 9, said blocks thus taking the weight of the barrels and receiving the shock or force of pressure upon or in the other and upper ends of the barrels.

In the floor I), and depending therefrom, is a stationary chute-holder, 71, within which is a vertically-m ovable chute, i, of greater length than its holder, and connected therewith by the engagement of handled pinsj on the chute in bayonet or cain slots k in the holder, so that by rotating such chute by its handles said chute will be moved up or down in its holder. Said chute is raised to permit the placing under it of a barrel on the stand 0, and, when said barrel is in vertical alignment with the chute, the latter is lowered and projects into the barrel. The chute is of slightly less diameter than the barrel to permit its entrance therein, and also to provide for the escape of air from the barrel as itis being filled.

The chute may be perforated, as indicated in Fig. 4-,if desired, to provide for the escape of air from it. Above the chute is erected a tower or derrick, Z, of suitable shape, material, and strength, and having vertical rails or guides m, to receive a cross-head, n, and this 'crosshead carries a vertical rod, 0, on the lower end of which is secured a ponderous plunger, p, of shape and diameter to freely pass down into and through the chute, as indicated in Fig. 2. The upper end of the crosshead is provided with a loop or eye, q.

r is a second cross-head engaging the rails in, and having pivoted therein thehook-shaped levers s, constructed substantially like grappling-irons, and having their shaped to engage cam or wedge-like continuations HI/I of the rails m, which, when said ends s of the levers 8 come in contact therewith, serve to separate the hooked ends of the lovers, to release whatever may be e1'igagcd by them, and in this instance said levers engage the loop or eye 1 of the plunger cross-head to raise upper ends, 8,

the latter, and when said cross-head is raised till the lever-arms s come in contact with the cams m said hooks are positively disengaged from said eye or loop, and allow the plunger to drop from them down through the chute 2', and by its weight and velocity expel therefrom the contents of the latter. The cross-head r is raised by a cord or chain, it, which engages an eye, 'r',,on the same, and extends thence over a pulley or sheave, t, to a Windlass, t, supported on the tower Z. The tower, cross-heads, plunger, grapple, and cord and pulley constitute one form of what I call, by analogy, a.

drop -press, though the construction of these parts resembles more nearly a piledriver. llhe function of these parts is to drive from the chute any substance or matter placed therein for filling into barrels, and force it by one or more blows or drops of the plunger into the barrel beneath the chute. The chute is filled from the floor b, and the press is operated from that floor by hand, steam, or other power. After abarrel has been thus packed the chute is raised and the stand 0 swung around end for end to bring an empty barrel under the chute, which is then inserted in it, and to carry the filled barrel to the header for the insertion of the head. In this instance the header consists of an annulus, u, connected by arms a with a collar, 11.", whereby it is se cured to a rod or stem, 0, having a vertical movement in guides a, supported on a frame, '0", built up from the floor a. The annulus a is of a diameter sufficient to freely enter the chine qfttne barrel, and it has in its lower edge a number. of notches or recesses, 10', to accommodate the battens used to head in the barrel, hereinbefore referred to, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

To thennder side of the upper guide, 1;, is pivoted one member of a toggle-lever, w, the other member being pivoted to the stem 22, and the two members being connected by link 10 with the operating-lever w, which latter is fulcru-med to the frame a", as shown in Fig. 1. When the heading-plunger u u u" o is depressed, it may be held in such position by engaging the lever to with the hook :12, as in full l'nes, theposition of inaction being designat d by dotted lines, Fig. 2.

Instead of the toggle-lever for operating the heading-plunger, 'I may use any of its wellknown mechanical equivalents-such, for example, as a hand-wheel and screwor instead of operatingit manually it may be worked by power machinery.

When a bar t'ehhas been filled, it is removed from the chat-p, and the head 1, having a neripheralgfpaclring and a nut, 2, is placedfin the barrel, and the heading-plunger is then brought down upon and forces said head against, the r sistance of its packing and the contents of th barrel into the said barrel, and

' while so held the battens 3 are slipped into the croze between the arms a, through the notches a in the annulus u, and the washer and screw-bolt 4. then applied, all as in said invention in barrels referred to. The screwbolt is made secure and the heading-plunger withdrawn, and the barrel thus securely headed is removed and replaced by an empty barrel. from the chute and is ready to be swung around under the heading-plunger to be headed, and these operations are thus repeated continuously, as desired.

In filling a barrel the whole quantity may be shoveled into the chute at once and forced into the barrel, or it may be supplied and forced into the barrel in lots. If the chute be made to hold an even barrelful of given weight-and such will usually be the practicethe whole quantity will be put in at once before the plungerp is dropped.

The plunger p serves not only to force the ensilage into the barrel, but it also acts to expel the air from the material, and to-thus, in

fact, ensil ate the material directly into the bar-- rel without the aid of a separate silo and ensilation. Still, crops may be first ensilated,

and then removed from the silo and immedi- I ately packed in the barrels or other air-tight and strong receptacles.

I propose in some cases to conduct directly In the meantime a barrel has been filled press for filling, and the other under the head in g-plunger for heading, and for conveying the filled barrel to the howling-plunger, the headed barrel to a place of discharge, and an empty barrel to the filling-chute, substantially as described.

2. In a barrel-filling apparatus, the stand for supporting the barrel to be filled, having a block to receive the lower head of the barrel, and support the barrel on such head, rather than on its staves ends, substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus for filling barrels, comprising a drop-plunger, a tilling-chute vertically movable within its holder to permit its insertion in and removal from a barrel, substantially as described.

4. The heading-plunger comprising a notched annulus, to, arms a, and a collar, 1.6-, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of January, A. D. 1885.

EDWIN A. FINOKEL, Geo. M. FINOKEL. 

